UK: Eventbrite, one of the world’s leading event technology and ticketing platforms, has released a brand new report summarising the results from a nationwide, representative survey looking at the going out habits of millennials. The study looks at the events scene in the UK and challenges associations of millennials as phone addicts who prefer the digital to the real world. Download the full report here. Key themes from the survey: The rise of the ’Sober Socialites’ Festival mad millennials call last orders on boozy pub culture. Wellness is in, alcohol is out – they’re simply looking for a wider range…
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UK: Following this summer’s bigger-than-ever, sold-out Boardmasters, the Cornish surf and music festival has revealed that it will return to Fistral Beach and Watergate Bay from August 8 – 13 2018. This year, Boardmasters welcomed 50,000 festivalgoers to enjoy world-class music from headliners Two Door Cinema Club, Jamiroquai, Alt-J and many more atop the picturesque Watergate Bay. Meanwhile, the UK’s surf mecca Fistral Beach drew surf lovers in droves, with a record number of attendees watching the international surf competition take place over five days. Check out our Boardmasters feature here.
Jimmy Woodard is a Business Development Manager at 360 Designs, a leading virtual reality company with expertise in live production and advanced custom cameras. He also has a partnership in place with an award-winning mixed reality company called AfterNow. Festival industry, take notice. Apple is set to unleash a mobile AR tsunami in September, and you can either ride the waves or get crushed by them. At first, I thought VR would be the industry that took the festival world by storm. But with clunky headsets, low resolution, high price tags, minimal content, and ultimately low consumer adoption, we’re still…
HUNGARY: Martin Audio PA systems were once again all over the massive seven-day Sziget Festival in Hungary — the final leg of a three-event tour of the country, which included Volt and Balaton Festivals. Capital supplied two trucks of equipment, including the bulk of the MLA, MLD, MLX and MLA Compact enclosures, while Martin Audio’s Polish partners, Musnicki, provided the remainder of Martin Audio’s flagship PA for the 25th edition of the event. Featuring daily crowds of 90,000, the event is dubbed the Island of Freedom due to its picturesque location on the Danube. In addition to main stage, Martin…
EUROPE: Keychange – a collaborative European programme led by PRS Foundation that aims to introduce more women into the music industry – has announced the 60 female artists and innovators participating in the two-year initiative. Announced today at Hamburg’s Reeperbahn Festival, the successful participants will take part in a series of showcases, discussions, collaborations and a programme of creative labs at seven international festivals. Backed by an innovation fund to help test new projects and ideas, Keychange will culminate with a final event in Brussels at the European Parliament in 2019, at which Keychange partners will present a manifesto for…
DENMARK: The Roskilde Festival Group and Meyer Sound have announced a unique partnership that will leverage the strengths of northern Europe’s largest continuing music festival and a world-leading supplier of professional audio systems. Beginning with the 2018 event, all stages at the Roskilde Festival will deploy reinforcement systems from Meyer Sound exclusively. In addition, Meyer Sound will assist in training the festival’s own technical staff in audio system design, configuration and optimisation. The partners also outlined ambitious proposals for audience education and interactive participation, as well as the formation of a new Roskilde Festival Academy for high-level training throughout the…
UK: Flare Audio has received recognition by the government as a leading UK innovator, following the publication of The Parliamentary Review this autumn. The annual review, published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, showcases businesses that demonstrate best practice at every level of industry, and features a foreword by the Prime Minister. Flare Audio founder Davies Roberts describes in the Review how, since launching in 2010, the company has developed a revolutionary new type of loudspeaker and earphone technology for professional and consumer use, providing a previously unheard level of audio clarity. The company sold over 200,000…
WORLDWIDE: On September 20 Amnesty International and Sofar Sounds held more than 300 concerts around the world for Give a Home, in which 1,000 artists performed intimate shows in people’s homes in support of refugee rights. Major artists including Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sandé, Hot Chip, Jesse & Joy, Laura Mvula, Ludovico Einaudi, The National, and more featured on the line-up. Joining them were refugee bands from around the world, including the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians who performed in London, and Canadian-Somali pop duo Faarrow who played in Los Angeles. The concerts spanned over 24 hours and 60 countries, starting with…
Having frequented many bars and festivals themselves, brothers Jonathan and Julian Gomma set up Beetle Juice in 2012 along with their best friend Harry Sloan to create a unique and truly mobile pop-up bar with a difference – it’s also a VW campervan. Catapulting into the events industry with a quirky edge, Beetle Juice serves premium cocktails from a vehicle that brings the party to wherever it goes, be it a festival, private party or street corner. Replicating their business plan and creating opportunities for budding bar owners to get involved, Beetle Juice has now successfully launched the Beetle Juice…
GERMANY: The PRS Foundation has announced ‘Keychange’, a collaborative European programme that aims to introduce more women into the music industry. Supporting 60 participants from across Europe, who will come together to form a network of female music creators and industry innovators, Keychange features a series of showcases, discussions, collaborations and a programme of creative labs at seven international festivals. Spanning two years and backed by an innovation fund to help test new projects and ideas, Keychange will culminate in a final event in Brussels at the European Parliament in 2019, at which Keychange partners will present a manifesto for…